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A-level Physics
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Topic 1
Capacitance, stored charge and energy, RC charging and discharging, and time constants.
Topic 2
Charge flow, emf, internal resistance, resistivity and circuit laws.
Topic 3
Electric field strength, Coulomb force, electric potential and charged-particle motion.
Topic 4
Gravitational field strength, potential, orbital motion and energy in radial fields.
Topic 5
Forces on currents and charges, magnetic flux, Faraday's law, Lenz's law and electromagnetic induction.
Topic 6
Stress, strain, Young modulus, deformation, material behaviour and elastic energy.
Topic 7
Random/systematic error, uncertainty propagation, graphs and significant figures.
Topic 8
Kinematics, forces, momentum, energy and circular motion.
Topic 9
Nuclear stability, binding energy, radioactive decay, fission and fusion.
Topic 10
Simple harmonic motion, energy, damping, forced oscillations and resonance.
Topic 11
Quarks, leptons, hadrons, antiparticles, conservation laws, reactions and particle detection.
Topic 12
Photons, the photoelectric effect, de Broglie waves and spectra.
Topic 13
Ideal gases, internal energy, heat capacity and microscopic models.
Topic 14
Phase, interference, diffraction, stationary waves and polarisation.